Richard P. Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard P. Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918 88) cheerfully ignores in this engagingly eccentric book. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high

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to be different is a threat to the moral fabric of society

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'It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else

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corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society

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